Pastor Stephanie
GALATIANS 3:26-27 EASY
All of you are God's children because you believe in Christ Jesus. They baptized you as believers in Christ. That means that you have put on Christ, like someone who puts on new clothes.
GALATIANS 3:28 EASY
It does not matter whether you are a Jew or a Gentile. It does not matter whether you are a slave or a free person. It does not matter whether you are a man or a woman. You all BELONG together because you all BELONG to Christ Jesus.
Whoever is not a Jew is a Gentile.
Both Jews and Gentiles belong to Christ.
GALATIANS 3:29 EASY
And if you BELONG to Christ, THEN you are descendants of Abraham. BECAUSE of THAT, you will receive all the good things that God promised to Abraham.
GENESIS 14:17-18 EASY
In that way, Abram won against Kedorlaomer and the kings with him.
As Abram was returning home, the king of Sodom came out to meet him. They met in the Valley of Shaveh, which people call the King's Valley. Melchizedek was the king of Salem, and he was a priest of the Most High God. He brought out bread and wine for Abram.
GENESIS 14:19-20 EASY
He blessed Abram. He said, ‘I pray that the Most High God who made heaven and earth will BLESS Abram. Praise the Most High God! He has given you power over your enemies.’ AFTER THAT, Abram gave MELCHIZEDEK a TENTH part of everything.
GENESIS 14:21-22 EASY
Then the king of Sodom said to Abram ‘Give back to me all my people. Take everything else for yourself.’ But Abram said to the king of Sodom, ‘I have made a strong promise to the Lord, the Most High God who made heaven and earth.
GENESIS 14:23 EASY
I promised that I would not take anything that BELONGED to you. I will not take the smallest thing, not even a piece of string, or part of a shoe. Then you will never be able to say, “I made Abram become rich.”
GENESIS 15:1 EASY
After this, the Lord spoke to Abram in a dream. God said, ‘Do not be afraid Abram.
I will KEEP you SAFE. I myself will GIVE you MANY GOOD GIFTS.’
God is the one who will be our reward.
He is the one who will give it to us.
Abraham was never under the law. He came before Moses.
MALACHI 3: 5-6 EASY
.. That is what the Lord Almighty says. ‘I am the Lord and I do not change. Because of my promises to my people, I have not destroyed you, descendants of Jacob.
Tithing is not just of the law.
MALACHI 3:7 EASY
I have told you my commands. But you do not listen to me any longer. You have not obeyed me, even since the time of your ancestors. Now, RETURN TO ME! Then I will RETURN to BLESS YOU.’ That is what the Lord Almighty says. ‘But you ask, “How do we return to you?”
God is talking to the children of Israel to come back to Him.
MALACHI 3:8-9 EASY
I say to you, “A man should not rob God. But you are robbing me.” But you ask, “How do we rob you?” I say, “You do not give to me the tithes and the offerings that you should give.” Yes, all of you are robbing me. The whole nation of Israel is guilty. So you will receive the punishment of a curse.
No one has to tithe.
MALACHI 3:10 EASY
Now you must bring the WHOLE TITHE that BELONGS to ME. STORE it in my temple, so that there will be food in my house. Obey me and then see what I will do.’ That is what the Lord Almighty says. ‘You will see how much I will bless you! You will not have enough room to store ALL the GOOD THINGS that I will GIVE to YOU. I will POUR BLESSINGS out of the sky like rain.
Tithe belongs to God.
God tells the Jews through Malachi that the 10% belongs to Him.
Under the law, there is obedience when the Jews bring their tithes to God.
MALACHI 3:11 EASY
I will stop insects from eating your crops. The grapes will not fall from your vines before they are ready to eat.
H4643 tithe
Original: מעשׂרה מעשׂר מעשׂר
Transliteration: ma‛ăśêr ma‛ăśar ma‛aśrâh
Phonetic: mah-as-ayr'
BDB Definition:
tithe, tenth part
tenth part
tithe, payment of a tenth part
Origin: from H6240
Original: עשׁר
Transliteration: ‛âshar
Phonetic: aw-shar'
to be or become rich or wealthy, enrich
to make rich
to gain riches
to accumulate;
to grow rich:- be (-come, en-, make, make self, wax) rich, make See H6240.
Tenth - Hebrew Gematria - 10
Yud represents the mighty and fiery hand of God.
Yud is also the smallest letter in the whole Hebrew alphabet.
Also speaks of humility.
Starts with one little dot from Heaven above and pour down to earth.
It’s a beginning of BIG blessings.
Starts from the Yud, the tenth, the smallest one.
When we tithe, God’s divine hand begin to move in our finances, in our job.
Jerusalem, Israel and Jesus all belongs to God.
We all belong to Jesus either Jews or Gentiles because we believe Jesus.
MALACHI 3:12 EASY
You will be happy to live in your land. The people of all the other nations will see that God has blessed you.’ That is what the Lord Almighty says.
MALACHI 3:13 EASY
The Lord says, ‘You have spoken bad words against me. But you ask, “What have we said against you?”
MALACHI 3:14-15 EASY
You have said, “We serve God, but that has not helped us at all. We are careful to do what he tells us to do. When we do wrong things, we have sad faces to show the Lord Almighty that we are sorry.
But it is proud people that God blesses! Yes, it is the people who do evil things who become rich! God does not even punish people who like to test him. That is what we think.” ’
MALACHI 3:16-18 MSG
Then those whose lives HONORED GOD got together and talked it over. God SAW what they were doing and LISTENED IN.
A book was opened in GOD’S PRESENCE and minutes were taken of the meeting, with the NAMES of the GOD-FEARERS written down, ALL the names of those who HONOURED GOD’S NAME. God-of-the-Angel-Armies said, “THEY’RE MINE, ALL MINE.
All these people who honoured Lord belongs to Him.
MALACHI 3:16-18 MSG
They’ll get SPECIAL TREATMENT when I go into action. I treat them with the same consideration and kindness that parents give the child who honors them. Once more you’ll see the difference it makes between being a person who does the right thing and one who doesn’t, between serving God and not serving him.”
Honouring God and honouring parents is a righteous thing to do.
MALACHI 3:17 EASY
The Lord Almighty says, ‘THESE PEOPLE will BELONG to ME. One day I will come to judge everyone. At that time I will bring together all MY OWN SPECIAL PEOPLE. I will not punish them. I will take care of them, like a father takes care of his son who servers him.
MALACHI 3:17 KJV
And they shall be MINE, saith the LORD of hosts, in that day when I make up my JEWELS; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him.
H5459 Jewels
Original: סגלּה
Transliteration: segûllâh
Phonetic: seg-ool-law'
possession, property
valued property
to shut up; wealth
ROMANS 11:16 EASY
If you offer the first piece of bread to God, then ALL the bread will BELONG to GOD. If the roots (Abraham and the patriarchs) of a tree belong to God, then the branches (the Israelites) will also be HIS.
JOHN 15:5 TPT
“I am the sprouting vine and you’re my branches. As you live in union with ME AS YOUR SOURCE, FRUITFULNESS [many, much, large, abundant, plenty] will stream from within you—but when you live separated from me you are powerless.
Today, we choose and acknowledge Christ as the source and wealth for everything.
When God has done everything, we have to respond.
For God to be the source in our lives, it’s for us to respond and tell God “I want Him to be our source and provisions in our lives.”
To have abundance and fruitfulness is when we understand we are attach to Jesus and He is the source.
The rest of our money are made holy when we give back 10% what belongs to God.
GOD WANTS US TO REALISE IN TITHING
THAT BOTH THE TITHE AND TITHER BELONGS TO HIM
AND WHAT BELONGS TO HIM - HE TREASURES,
HE SUPPORTS,
HE PROTECTS AND
HE GIVES THEM SUPERNATURAL MIRACULOUS BLESSINGS!!
When tithing was instituted with Abraham, it was a relationship with Melchizedek.
Bread and wine signifies provisions.
We have now in Christ not just Abraham’s blessings but we have the Holy Spirit’s blessings too.
We have material blessings and Holy Spirit leading us in making wise decision; the joy and peace too.
He values. He supports. He protects and give us supernatural miraculous blessings.
The Jews’ land was already fertile.
It was an act of God.
When God’s Yud (hand) comes in, blessings come in and the land becomes fertile.
In Christ, experience the basic blessings with God.
Promise land got more things than in the wilderness.
In the wilderness, there is God’s grace. He still give us bread to eat.
God told Abraham He will give him the land.
Today, these blessings are available to us.
We are no more either Jews and Gentiles.
It all starts with the Yud.
It’s the beginning of great things; the blessings of Abraham.
There is no compulsion to anyone who wants to tithe.
Not by compulsion but by free will.
Tithing is for the children of God.
It’s a privilege to be able to tithe.
Streaming from a relationship with Abba Father.
It belongs to us if we would to honour Him.
When we belong to Him, He will take care of us.
On this earth, not every believers experience Abraham’s blessings.
But God wants us to experience it.
Truth will set us free.
When we’re free, we get to enjoy all the blessings.
Tithing brings a person back to God.
When we see the mystery behind the tithe and the tither, the relationship with God, we experienced the blessings.
When we tithe in faith, we are actually coming back to God.
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